Employment and unemployment have recently been major topics of public discussion and a
focus for public policy development in Australia. The public policy development culminated …

White Paper has the modest and less cheerful title of Working nation. It is, nonetheless, an
important and fascinating document because it provides a window onto a series of policy …

Working nation: the White Paper on employment and growth basically papers over the
problem of regional unemployment. It does so through a limited definition of the problem and …

This is a White Paper on employment and growth. We take the view that the two are
inseparable; success in one will complement the other. The Paper might even be taken to …

This paper examines the Australian experience in tackling the problem of entrenched
unemployment and underutilisation in the past few decades. The persistence of regional …

Unemployment rates are often used as an indicator in setting government priorities' and
labour market policies. In particular, two policies are the subject for discussion in this article …

During the 1980s, the'long boom'in the Australian economy faded to a whimper. The effects
of structural changes in the world economy, the internationalisation of production, trade by …

Background The decision to establish a committee to investigate possible remedies for
unemployment was taken by the Federal Government after its reelection in 1993. This …

Despite renewed interest in providing analyses of the causes and consequences of
Australia's unemployment problem, little has been done to establish the nature of the …

When compared to metropolitan areas, rural and regional Australia is commonly perceived
as having difficult labour markets, with higher levels of unemployment supposedly resulting …